Chronic renal failure is a devastating medical, social and economic problems for patients and their families in India. Dialysis is considered the treatment of choice. The aim of the study is to find out the effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge and quality of life among hemodialysis patients at Chennai. A true experimental group design was used and allotted 60 samples in control group and 60 in experimental group. The experimental group received the educational intervention and

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... the control group received the hospital routine. The pretest and posttest level of knowledge and quality of life was assessed by Knowledge questionnaire and Kidney disease Quality of life(KDQOL -SF). The post test mean score of knowledge was 11.40 in control group and 17.83 in experimental group with the t value of 10.29 which denotes high statistical significance at p<0.001. The posttest mean score of Quality of Life was 0.38 in control group and 10.10 in experimental group with the t value of 84.35 at p<0.01 which showed high statistical significance. Hence educational intervention is recommended to the hemodialysis patients to increase the level of knowledge and promote the Quality of life.